Longitudinal Associations Between Reactive and Proactive Aggression and Depression in Early Adolescence: Between- and Within-Person Effects.

Depressive symptoms Developmental cascades Early adolescents RI-CLPM Reactive and proactive aggression

Journal

Journal of youth and adolescence
ISSN: 1573-6601
Titre abrégé: J Youth Adolesc
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0333507

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
19 Dec 2023
Historique:
received: 15 06 2023
accepted: 20 10 2023
medline: 19 12 2023
pubmed: 19 12 2023
entrez: 19 12 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Depressive symptoms and aggression often co-occur, and previous studies have found different bidirectional links between depressive symptoms and aggression, suggesting inconsistent developmental cascades. Moreover, it is unclear whether different functions of aggression are differentially associated with depressive symptoms over time. The present study examined the longitudinal associations of reactive and proactive aggression with depressive symptoms in early adolescence. Adolescents (n = 942, 50.7% girls; mean age = 12.54 years, SD = 0.42) were surveyed annually over three years (2019-2021). Random-intercept cross-lagged panel models were used to disentangle between- and within-person effects. The results showed moderate between-person associations of depressive symptoms with the two aggressive functions. And depressive symptoms were more highly associated with reactive aggression than with proactive aggression. However, the state-level bidirectional cross-lagged associations between reactive and proactive aggression and depressive symptoms were not significant. This study highlights the stable trait-like association between depressive symptoms and reactive aggression, and the absence of state-level bidirectional cross-lagged associations challenges previous developmental cascades in adolescents.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38112848
doi: 10.1007/s10964-023-01896-2
pii: 10.1007/s10964-023-01896-2
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Subventions

Organisme : Major Program of the National Social Science Fund of China
ID : 20&ZD153
Organisme : Major Program of the National Social Science Fund of China
ID : 20&ZD153

Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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Auteurs

Zhengqian Yang (Z)

State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Yuhan Luo (Y)

School of Education, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China.

Fumei Chen (F)

Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment for Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Rui Luo (R)

State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Mengdi Qi (M)

State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Zhaoyi Li (Z)

Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment for Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Yun Wang (Y)

State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. wangyun@bnu.edu.cn.

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